OK, if it’s a known issue and working on being solved I’ll rest easy.

Thanks for the hard work, I’m a rubbish sysadmin for a small flat. Can’t imagine how much harder having folks all internetting in from any old IP and having to code the software. Hats off and kudos to you.

NSFW posts from our instance seem to ignore voyager filter off NSFW content option.

They are blurred by default though.

Just slice of married-family life.

Things like this occur and are relatable, or so I’ve been told.

On the one hand, you’re right and I know it. It’s the power fantasy over structural and social solutions/cooperation.

On the other hand, some are more fascy than Superman:

• Batman (general ignoring of structural issues, the even heavier glorification of vigiliantism over most capes)
• X-Men (if the gay, persecuted minority stuff gets occluded, and possibly due to those a lot of the villains)
• Green Lantern (might be wrong here, but seems to be space cops with a strong link to US military. I’ll assume Nazi-coded villains to make them seem more heroic.)

The tension of violent and peaceful activism is a history long one.

That knowledge and thought coming through is probably why Black Panther is, in my opinion, one of the best MCU films.

Unlike many Black activists however, the Wakandan Royal Family - like royalty in Africa - did not experience the bulk of racism in the Americas. Which might be why their step towards “coexistence” is to fund some community centres, which while important and having a powerful, Black, African nation would do a lot of psychic good - the racism in America isn’t really shown and the focus is on Killmonger’s dad being assassinated by T’Chala’s father. (iirc.)

You’re right in that it is more thoughtful overall, and less fit to this discussion, than most MCU films.

Ironically Superman is one of the least fascy superheroes, at least when written by anyone who understands the character.

If only there was some record of US military budget being spent on making these films and limiting the way that the US and it’s armed forces could be portrayed in these films… Surely not.

I took this to be about MCU specifically, so I’ll skip the first two Spiderman film continuities.

Homecoming - the villain is a lower class guy who has been screwed by the fallout of the Avengers and is making money to improve his family off of it. He is somewhat sympathetic, but the moral of the story is trust in the authorities because a well meaning guy will fix the hiccup in the system, and responding to systemic issues with force is wrong. Could be argued the real villain is Tony Stark.

I did not see the remaining MCU Spidermen, but they look to focus on more otherworldly Meta-continuity forces.

Black Panther - the villain is an extremist with a point. Killmongers desire for revenge and modes go too far. He should be better, like the royal family are. Luckily Killmonger inspires the legitimate authority to make a choice to do more and be more benign. Maybe he just should have trusted in the legitimate authorities all along and stayed inside the social bounds… Which had not made change until his use of force and theft?

I have seen the Iron Men, but not recently enough to engage with.

Civil War: the authorities want something that is controversial, but it turns out they weren’t the legitimate authorities, but secret Nazis trying to bring harm to everyone. The legitimate authorities had folks best interests at heart and fix everything. Could go either way, since forming a terrorist cell to fight authority is pretty radical.

The Thanos films: Thanos’ malthusianism is presented as bad, but not actually as wrong. There have been plenty of ways at this point to show that Malthusianism isn’t accurate, (and wasn’t actually an original part of the character) but it was put in here and not debated or shown to be wrong in itself, just “bad that he did it”. Malthusian ideals are strongly linked to right wing ideologies (as well as some nutty far left ones) that have been ascendent in relatively core right wing parties in the last 20 years.

OK, that makes some degree of sense in the abstract. I’ll try to hold on to it.

Thanks for checking and getting back to me. It helps grok the cardinality a bit more.

OK, thanks for the extra info. When I see that function it kinda makes sense but stops if I think about it too much.

Would even numbers and prime numbers have different cardinality?

So, some infinities are bigger than others.

How many numbers are there? An infinite number.

How many even numbers are there? An infinite amount, but half the size of the first infinity.

This is how there are empty rooms in the infinitely large hotel with infinite guests.

What is utility?

Must it be measurable and quantifiable?

And even if it needn’t, can it exist otherwise in an economic system that requires quantified value in all things?

Oh, I figured they counted as a huge loss of civil liberties.

US gained the rights to legally murder its own citizens without due process under Obama.

Also loads of giving corporations and capital rights, and rolling back protective anti-investment gambling under Democrat administrations, which ate up the rights of non-capital.

He had one, but he fired her and looks to be too stubborn and sure of his own competence to hire another one (or maybe too proud to admit that she was right and useful after firing her for petty reasons).

Mainland PRC has no entries after 2016 for the UN site.

The London Prison studies one has an estimate for 2018, and says based off of UN data.

On 百度 I get mixed figures, from 3900 and another states At least 700 a year, but I also think it’s talking more globally.

Doesn’t seem to be public government statistics, like the UK or EU gov data sites, which would be nice to check things out and show to the rabid anti-China folks.

That’s the UN data for Hong Kong, but it was easy enough to find the page for the PRC, excluding Hong Kong and Macao. The figures still line up well enough (noting, as the other page does that it exclude statistics about people interred in the “vocational training schools”), although the UN doesn’t have figures post 2016.

UN page doesn’t seem to have execution rates either, which would also impact incarceration rates.

Not to say that the US isn’t atrocious and also terrible on all those metrics, and plumbing new lows with each successive presidency. I was just kinda hoping for some more official PRC reported figures.

I’ve been looking for Chinese prison-crime-etc. data. Do you have a link?

It being in Mandarin isn’t a problem.

Make it a question with a third ma.

So “ma ma ma?” (妈麻吗?)

Aye, any Israeli who isn’t actively opposing the settlements in the West Bank is unambiguously in the wrong. And I wish that wasn’t a controversial statement.

You’re right in that Rabin’s assassination wasn’t the change in itself (that such Israeli extremists had continued to exist shows that that violent current in Israel had continued and been bubbling away), but it makes a good mark of a turning point and the loss of really any chance for reconciliation in at least our lifetimes.